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China blocks UN sanctions against Pakistani militant leader

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Associated Press

Edith M. Lederer

United Nations (AP) — China on Wednesday blocked US and India from imposing UN sanctions against deputy chief Jaish. e-Mohammad is a Pakistan-based extremist group designated as a terrorist organization by the United Nations.

Abdul Rauf Azhar has been subject to US sanctions since December 2010 for acting on behalf of or on behalf of a group known as JEM. India has implicated Al-Azhar in planning and carrying out numerous terrorist attacks, including the 1999 hijacking of an Air India plane, the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament, and the 2016 attack on the Indian Air Force base in Pathankot. He said that he was

In June, China announced that another Pakistani group banned by the United Nations, Lashkare, his Taibah deputy secretary Abdul his Rehman, his Mackhi, had been replaced by the United Nations Black Withheld adding to the list. Macchi said he has been under U.S. sanctions since November 2010, and India has accused him of financing, recruiting and radicalizing young people to violence, and of attacks, including his 2008 attack in Mumbai. He said he was involved in the planning.

The government, a counter-terrorism agency, has outlawed more than 65 of his extremist groups, including Jaish-e-Mohammad and his Lashkar-e-Taiba.

"We have put it on hold because we need more time to investigate the incident," said a spokesperson for China's UN mission.

He said the United Nations Security Council's Sanctions Oversight Committee allows "holding" of those to whom sanctions have been proposed, stating that "similar responses to requests for listings by members of the Committee have been made." There were quite a few on hold," he said.

A spokesman for the United States Permanent Mission to the United Nations was also not authorized to speak publicly, but the United States "confirmed" that people had proposed sanctions. It meets the standards of evidence necessary to justify being blacklisted under UN sanctions.

"We strongly believe in the commission's importance to prevent and hold ISIS, al-Qaeda, and their affiliates to account for their illegal activities," said a US spokesperson. Stated. "Furthermore, the United States, in collaboration with its partners on the Security Council, will focus on using this tool effectively in non-political ways to deter terrorists from exploiting the world order to do evil.